Timeless (TV Series)

The War to End All Wars (2018)

Susanna Thompson: Carol Preston

Quotes 

• Wyatt Logan : We can either shoot it out, or we can both walk away with the person we came here for. Drop the gun.

  Emma Whitmore : Drop yours first.

  Wyatt Logan : I'm gonna be real clear. You let Lucy go, or he dies right now.

  Carol Preston : [Emma lets Lucy go]  You knew they were alive and you kept it from me.

  Lucy Preston : Just... come with us.

  Carol Preston : What?

  Lucy Preston : Come with us, mom. I would forgive you for every horrible thing that you did for them if you just... just be with us. Be on the right side of history.

  Carol Preston : Lucy, this is so much bigger than you or me.

• Carol Preston : You haven't touched your breakfast.

  Lucy Preston : I don't recommend traveling on a full stomach. Trust me.

  Carol Preston : You've come so far these past few weeks, Lucy. I'm proud of you. I don't have to tell you how important this trip is, for both of us.

  Lucy Preston : I know, mom. I'm ready.

  Carol Preston : Yes, I believe you are. They're waiting for us.

• Carol Preston : Oh, it's incredible. We're here together, like I'd always hoped. Are you ready?

  Lucy Preston : Let's go change history.

• Carol Preston : I used to play this for you.

  Lucy Preston : Every night, while I was studying for my AP European History final. It drove me nuts.

  Carol Preston : Yes, but you aced the test.

• Emma Whitmore : Two days. How much longer do we have to wait around?

  Carol Preston : We don't know exactly when he's going to show up. The records are spotty. But we'll wait for him as long as we have to.

  Lucy Preston : Who? Why? Is it someone famous?

  Carol Preston : His name is Nicholas Keens. And that's really all you need to know.

  Emma Whitmore : Maybe Mom doesn't trust you.

  Lucy Preston : Because you're so trustworthy? You've lied to, what, everyone you've ever worked with?

  Emma Whitmore : I've always been loyal to Rittenhouse, from the start.

  Lucy Preston : Unless you're lying now. I mean, how many faces do you really have?

  Emma Whitmore : Some of us aren't royalty, princess. Some of us had to work our way up while you were busy running from having everything handed to you.

  Lucy Preston : Work your way up to what? Wicked stepsister?

  Carol Preston : All right, that's enough. Both of you.

• Carol Preston : Sweetheart, this trip is your chance to prove your loyalty. Just do that and all your questions will be answered.

• Soldier Edward : You're Americans?

  Carol Preston : Yes. My daughter and I are volunteers for the American Committee for Devastated France, and Emma is a nurse.

  Lucy Preston : A nurse?

  Emma Whitmore : Lived alone in a Missouri cabin for ten years. You pick up things.

• Emma Whitmore : He's crashing. We need the defribilator.

  Soldier Edward : The what?

  [seeing Emma and Carol gel the paddles] 

  Soldier Edward : What's that?

  Emma Whitmore : Clear.

  Lucy Preston : [trying to usher him out]  Please, you have to go, okay?

  Soldier Edward : Uh, I'm not going anywhere.

  Lucy Preston : It's okay, they'll take care of him.

  Soldier Edward : [seeing the defribilator work]  Whoa, you're killing him!

  Emma Whitmore : His pulse is back. BP is 90 over 50.

  Soldier Edward : Get your hands off him.

  Emma Whitmore : We don't have time for this.

  Soldier Edward : What're you doing?

  Carol Preston : [Emma shoots Edward in the leg]  You're a better shot than that, Emma.

  Emma Whitmore : You're right. I thought Lucy should take care of this.

• Emma Whitmore : His body's riddled with shrapnel.

  Carol Preston : Take it out.

  Emma Whitmore : I can't even see it without an x-ray.

  Carol Preston : Lucy. Lucy, are you okay?

  Lucy Preston : [poker-faced]  I'm fine. What if we could get an x-ray machine here?

• Lucy Preston : So, have I proven myself? Or is Emma gonna make me shoot innocent people on every trip?

  Carol Preston : Emma still believes you're working for the other side.

  Lucy Preston : There is no other side anymore, right, mother? You got rid of all that.

• Mac : So they had portable x-ray machines in World War I?

  Carol Preston : They were called "petite Curies," Mac.

  Mac : Is that French for "portable x-ray"?

  Lucy Preston : They were named after Marie Curie. She invented them.

  [seeing his blank look] 

  Lucy Preston : Seriously? The most famous scientist of her time.

  Carol Preston : She discovered radium and polonium.

  Lucy Preston : She was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes.

  Mac : How do we know there's gonna be one of these machines, a petite Curie, at this field hospital?

  Carol Preston , Lucy Preston : We're historians.

• Carol Preston : You can't smell history in books.

  Lucy Preston : 'Cause you wouldn't wanna.

• Lucy Preston : Marie Curie? We are not taking them back to the farmhouse.

  Carol Preston : Honey, we may not have a choice. We'll get her back here in a couple of hours.

  Lucy Preston : Unless something happens to her. What if she gets hurt or... or dies?

  Carol Preston : I understand what's at stake here. But trust me when I tell you that this is that important.

• Marie Curie : Come closer.

  Lucy Preston : Oh, I've heard radiation is dangerous.

  Marie Curie : The procedure is completely safe.

  Irene Curie : Don't believe what you've heard. We're in more danger from our drivers.

  Carol Preston : How so?

  Irene Curie : One night, my mom was on her way home from the field hospital.

  Marie Curie : The truck overturned.

  Irene Curie : My mom was crushed underneath the apparatus. Bleeding everywhere, and then, the driver, he rushed around the car, and he said...

  Marie Curie : "Madam, madam, are you dead?"

  Irene Curie : My sister and I wouldn't have even known had we not found the bloody bandages. I think she was afraid we'd try to stop her from her work, as if that were possible.

• Carol Preston : I was hoping Emma was wrong. Must've been hard for you this morning, killing that soldier just to prove your loyalty to us.

  Lucy Preston : If I hadn't, Emma would've. That's what you do. Kill people.

  Carol Preston : Lucy. You know how sorry I am about Mason Industries, the Lifeboat, your friends. I told you that that part wasn't my call.

  Lucy Preston : Not your call? I thought you were the one in charge of all of this.

  Carol Preston : There are others who have a say. Powerful people. People who don't care about you the way I do.

  Lucy Preston : Oh, so you're not a monster? You just collaborate with monsters?

  Carol Preston : Oh, well, weren't you just about to suffocate a... an injured soldier?

• Lucy Preston : If you don't trust me, then why did you even bring me?

  Carol Preston : Because I wanted to. Lucy, I want us to to be close again.

  Lucy Preston : Close? We're not close. You've been lying to me my entire life. I don't even know who you are.

  Carol Preston : For god's sake, I'm still the same person. I'm still the same person that kissed your skinned knees when you were little, that comforted you when Michael Garrison didn't take you to the prom. I love you. Everything I do, that I've ever done, I've done for you.

  [taking the pillow from Lucy] 

  Carol Preston : But if you ever try something like this again, I won't be able to protect you.

• Emma Whitmore : He's ready, right?

  Carol Preston : Mm.

  Emma Whitmore : Well, let's go.

  Lucy Preston : Ready for what?

  Carol Preston : Nicholas is coming home with us.

• Lucy Preston : [outside the Mothership, as Emma draws her gun]  Emma, no.

  Irene Curie : It's just my mother and me.

  Marie Curie : We wanted to see what was disrupting the machine. I think we found it.

  Emma Whitmore : I really wish you hadn't seen this.

  Lucy Preston : Mom, this is crazy. Tell her to put the gun down.

  Carol Preston : Emma.

  Emma Whitmore : What? You think I want to do this? I didn't make the rules, Carol, but you know them as well as I do.

• Lucy Preston : You want to prove to me that you're not a monster? You taught me everything that I know about these women. How could you hurt them?

  Marie Curie : Do what you must. Spare my daughter. Her sister has no other family left.

  Irene Curie : Maman, no, if you die, your work dies with you.

  Marie Curie : My daughters are the only work that matters.

  Emma Whitmore : Let's just get this over with.

  Carol Preston : Put the gun down. That's an order.

  [Emma lowers her gun; after a moment, she raises it again, and Lucy steps protectively in front of the Curies] 

  Lucy Preston : No! No.

  Emma Whitmore : Don't tempt me, princess. I'm more than happy to take you out, too.

• Carol Preston : Emma. You've worked too hard. Don't throw it all away. Just put the gun down now.

  Emma Whitmore : I was told if she disrupted the mission, you wouldn't be impartial enough to make the decision.

  Lucy Preston : How did I disrupt the mission? I killed your soldier's friend when he tried to get in the way, I brought you a damn portable x-ray machine. I saved that guy's life.

  Emma Whitmore : Did you?

  [holding up a grenade] 

  Emma Whitmore : Then what was this for? Hmm?

  [handing it to Carol] 

  Emma Whitmore : I found it in her bag. She picked it up at the field hospital. I think she was gonna bring it on board the Mothership to blow it up, and all of us with it. Someone who's willing to die fighting against us will never fight for us. You can't protect her anymore.

• Emma Whitmore : Follow us, fight us. You can have your damn Lifeboat. You're never gonna get what you really want.

  Lucy Preston : What's that?

  Emma Whitmore : I took a few trips of my own in the Mothership.

  Lucy Preston : What trips?

  Emma Whitmore : Trips to make certain that no matter what you do, no matter where you go, your precious sister, the one who disappeared from history, she's never coming back.

  Lucy Preston : [advancing on her]  No! No!

  Rufus Carlin : [restraining her]  Lucy! Lucy.

  Emma Whitmore : I just do what your mom tells me to.

  Carol Preston : That's enough.

• Carol Preston : I'm happy to see you're awake. Uh, don't worry. You're safe.

  Nicholas Keynes : Where am I?

  Carol Preston : You're with Rittenhouse, in the year 2018. You were right about time travel. It's possible. We commissioned a time machine. It's all come to pass. And now we've got work to do.

  Nicholas Keynes : And who are you?

  Carol Preston : I'm your granddaughter.